I was in the passenger seat of a car with my aunt when I was listening to the song, “Life is Beautiful” by Sixx am. It was nearing the end of August, and I was looking at the way the sun was shining through the trees; the fleeting company …

Clothes off by gym class heroes is on there album as cruel as school children. This song is four minutes and eleven seconds long and it came out in July twenty seventh two thousand and seven. This song to me is kind of funny because it talks about how …

Celine Dion & R. Kelly
“I’m Your Angel”
These Are Special Times
Columbia/Epic
Director: Billie Woodruff
R. Kelly teams up with Celine Dion on her album titled “These Are Special Times” for the song and music video titled “I’m Your Angel”. R. Kelly shows up in his Pimp-Mobile wearing a professional suit (I guess …

Overview - Are You Experienced, the first record put out by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, is a mixture of songs which range from a more rock driven attitude, to a psychedelic sound, to an extremely melodic tone. While the album does include several hits and fan favorites which just …

Overview —“ Boom, a music video released by System Of A Down, follows the band as they marched in a peace protest against the Iraq War and shows various protests from all across the world in protest of this war. The lyrics are quite a bit darker then I …

Paint It Black is a track by The Rolling Stones which appears on the album Aftermath. The song has become iconic and extremely well known among Rolling Stones fans and just rock fans in general, myself included. The sitar riff on this track has just become so memorable to …

Overview —“ I Disappear, a track written for the purposes of the Mission Impossible II soundtrack is a song that ended up causing a lot of controversy for Metallica and costing them a lot of fans, and not even for the song itself. For those of you who do …

Lullaby For The Summer is an instrumental by Jimi Hendrix which appears on his posthumous album, Valleys Of Neptune. The track starts off with a guitar riff coming through the left channel before the music picks up and it starts coming through both channels. Thus far I wouldn’t say …

A Song Dedicated To The Memory Of Stormy The Rabbit is a song by Andrew Jackson Jihad which appears on their album People That Can Eat People Are The Luckiest People. What I will say immediately about this track is that although I think the songwriting is just brilliant, …

Seattle, written by Hugo Montenegro, Jack Keller and Ernie Sheldon, has been around for quite a while. It was written for the TV series, Here Come the Brides, in 1969. The series in its first season used an instrumental version, but then in the second season they …

Sara is a song by Bob Dylan which is the final track on his album Desire. I’ll be honest and admit right now that this is one of my favorite Dylan songs throughout his entire catalogue. The track starts off with a somewhat ominous tone before leading into a …

The Hank Jones: That Old Feeling CD is available on the singer’s website and as the label indicates is a collection of music set to “the gentle ballad sounds of Hank Jones.” Now Hank Jones might not be a household name everywhere in the world, but he’s a …

The Coffee Song is a song by Cream which appears on their debut record, Fresh Cream. The song opens up with a very dreamy atmosphere due to the vocal delivery and also the subtle guitar lines played behind the vocals. As with many of the songs by Cream, …

The Peavy Vypyr 30 is a 30 watt solid state modeling amp. It has loads of features. It models 12 different famous guitar amps such as the Fender Twin and the Peavey 6505, with a clean and distorted version of each, making 24. It …

Let’s Go Get Stoned is a song by Sublime and is the eighth track on their debut release 40 Oz. To Freedom. The track opens up with the vocals immediately entering the mix along with the usual instrumentation of guitar, drums, and bass as well. In the beginning of …

My best friend is a song by Tim McGraw. It talks about a husband and wife that have a great relationship.
It idealizes how a great marriage should be if it is going to last through the sea of times. It talks about people and things and the way they …

As a beginner, I had no idea what kind of guitar to get. Target was selling a beginner’s kit that included an acoustic guitar, case, instructional DVD, and extra strings, as well as a small pack of picks. It retailed for $100 but was on sale for …

The way I am by Eminem is an awesome song that is a confusing rap to me. This song has a lot of cuss words in it but I still love this song because it talks about how a person to this guy is anything and everything that other …

Me and my friends recently got the idea to start a band up. Ive also always had the nack to beat on stuff so i became drummer and purchases a Pearl Vision drum kit. The thing is amazing. It has a proffesional quality at an amatuer price. The Pearl …

Blackened, the opening track of Metallica’s fourth record, opens in a similar fashion to Fight Fire With Fire, the opener from Ride The Lightning, and Battery, the opener from Master Of Puppets. In fact, now that I think about it, Blackened also seems to share a common lyrical theme …

The first thing I love about Barry Manilow: Manilow Sings Sinatra CD is that the liner is all black and white, inside and out. Somehow, that fits. There are some nice photos of the recording session included as they explain why they took on this project. …

I wasn’t looking at my computer when I put on the Billy Ray Cyrus: Southern Rain CD so I practically jumped when I heard Billy Ray thanking me listening. I didn’t realize the CD had a CD-Rom element to it that begins with him doing a video greeting …

The danelectro danoblaster guitar that I recenty borrowed froma freind is a neat assembly of parts.This guitar was made in korea and has a floyd rose type bridge that lays flat against the body which only makes it good for diving.It’s painted black with a mother of pearl …

This is a review for GHS Electric Boomers guitar strings. These have been around since 1964 and have been a standard in the industry. The great thing about these is the price and consistency of the strings. I’ve been through every brand of string you could imagine and I’m …

If you are not familiar with the girl band Sugababes, fret not. That is because they are a girl group band hailing all the way from UK. And they sound as sweet as sugar. As for this album, Catfights and Spotlights by Sugababes they score to me …

The right kind of music soundtrack is crucial for a particular type of movie and for that, Defiance by James Newton Howard works for me. I listened to the songs inside and I certainly think it matched the concept of the movie, Defiance. On some circumstances, even if …

Overview - 21st Century Breakdown, the latest of Green Day’s efforts offers up a power-pop-punk rock opera which both introduces and develops Green Day’s latest characters, a couple named Christian and Gloria who have to deal with the mess of the 21st century and have no one in the …

Pretty Peggy-O is a traditional song which is covered by Bob Dylan that appears on his self-titled debut record. I’ll say right now that the version of this song which I was always familiar with was the version by The Grateful Dead, a version which I actually enjoy quite …

Hatebreed is a very good metal band with very good songs and they stand out in the metal scene and this band is one of the best metal bands ever. The song that they come out with are awesome and heavy and most of their songs they do sound …

The reason I know Brad Maule is from his role on the daytime soap opera, General Hospital, where he played Doctor Tony Jones. As a result of that role, I met him a couple of times at events and thought he was a nice guy. He sang …

R. Kelly
“Hair Braider”
Untitled Ninth Album
Jive Records
“Hair Braider” is the first single and music video from R. Kelly’s currently untitled ninth studio album. The song is about him fantasizing of having sexual relationships with different women who braid his hair yet the music video only shows him having his hair …

Piece By Piece is a song by Slayer which appears on their album Reign In Blood. The track opens up with all of the instruments starting up right away and wasting no time establishing a very solid and heavy rhythm of the track. Araya’s bass is pretty high in …

Summertime Blues is a song by The Flaming Lips and the final track on their album Hear It Is, if you own an early copy of the record which includes this bonus track. Opening up with a distorted guitar riff, the song takes on a more aggressive rock sound …

I never heard of Jessie J before this song. When this song came out, I didn’t really want to check it out since I thought Jessi J was another ordinary chick. But then, I keep on seeing this song pop up on my facebook wall. I was like “Wow. …

A Manatee Dance is a song by Animal Collective which is the opening track to their second album, Danse Manatee. Opening up with a synthesized introduction, a listener is introduced to the noise-type of music that was somewhat prominent throughout Animal Collective’s debut record, Spirit They’ve Gone, Spirit They’ve …

The Slugs were a short-lived punk band out of NYC who, like many punk bands of the time, made their mark in the punk scene with just two 45’s- one in 1979 and another in 1980. In 1981 both were re-released in one sleeve, making for a killer combination …

Fitter Happier is a song by Radiohead which appears on their album OK Computer. Opening up in a very unorthodox manner, the track features a robotic voice reading off some words which is actually very prominent throughout the majority of this track. After the robotic voice goes on for …

This Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton by John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers is another of my favorite blues sounds and songs.
It proudly belongs to me, which I bought for around $100, and although this be a bit outdated to have, it still definitely rocks. For all of those …

Going To Georgia is a song by Sledding With Tigers and is the penultimate track on their second release, The Hill Sheep. Before I begin, I should add that this is a cover of a band called Mountain Goats, so I unfortunately cannot comment too much on the songwriting …

Hannah Montana is a teen sitcom on Disney Channel and on 2006, Walt Disney and Hollywood Records released its first ever soundtrack with songs that are always played on the sitcom. The sitcom is about Miley Stewart who is a typical teenage girl but is actually a superstar.
The album …

This movie, at the time, was the scariest movie I had ever seen, but I was also like twelve years old when I watched it. I have watched it again since then and I realize how stupid it really is. Maybe the second time just isn’t as scary, but …

Sober is a track which appears on Muse’s debut record, Showbiz. Sober is written about alcoholism, as I suppose the name would suggest, and Sober is one of the first songs of Muse that I listened to. I remember listening through their entire debut record and Sober was one …

Secret Window is a film based on a novel written by Stephen King and starring Johnny Depp. My girlfriend is a huge fan of Depp so I typically watch his movies with her occasionally but I have to admit that he’s never disappointed me in a role and it …

Aaliyah’s last, self titled album “Aaliyah” hit the store shelves July 2001. It was long anticipated since her successful “One In A Million” album. Aaliyah took a new direction with it. The album opens up with the first single, “We Need A Resolution” featuring long time …

We rode in trucks by Luke Bryant is a song that makes me think of the small town I live in cause I know what it is like to grow up like he is talking about. Trucks are a common thing among these parts. This song shows how it …

Killing Time is a cover performed and recorded by Metallica for their record Garage, Inc. I believe that the original version of this song is done by a band known as Sweet Savage, if I remember correctly, but I don’t know their version all that well to be honest …

This is Marilyn Manson’s 5th full length album, released in 2003 on Interscope Records. Tt isn’t really a concept album, but it does have a theme, this being the swing era of the 30’s, the golden age, the lyrics are based around this theme as well. This is the …

The Unforgiven would be the one song on The Black Album which I would define as being extremely musically mature and once again shows an excellent example of Metallica continuing to progress as excellent songwriters. The lyrics to this song deal with this person cutting himself off from society …

Did You See The Words is a song by Animal Collective and is the first track on their album Feels. Opening up with an interesting guitar rhythm, a listener should ideally get the feeling that they’re in for something special because I personally consider this track to one of …

I was a big fan of Selena Gomez when I was like 10-14 years old. I always saw her as Miley Cyrus’ rival during those days, coming from Hannah Montana and Wizards of Waverly Place.
I loved some of her songs when she was called “Selena Gomez and the Scene”; …